Problem is not that they redesigned it, problem is how they redesigned it, with seemingly infinite vertical scrolling and controls that are clearly optimized for touch, which can only mean 2 things: touch screens are coming to Macs soon or reusing assets (laziness, cheaping out and inconsideration), you know… “it’s good enough”. Once upon a time “it’s good enough” wasn’t accepted answer at Apple, but alas…
Or maybe a third option, an imagined priority that things need to be the same across devices. New solutions to non-problems (ios7, cough, cough). As in, how did users ever manage before? 😳
Beavers build dams, birds fly, designers design. Sometimes designers don’t know when to put the pencil down.